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DETECTIVE ANNA

EPISODE 30: TWO OFFICERS

Spare some change, sir?

Sorry, brother. Don't have any.

How could this happen? I looked away for a second and he hit me over the head.

- Why did he do it? Why? - Why did he hit you in the head?

No, his own head, why did he...?

Check his pockets.

Stop.

- Where are you going? - The tailor.

- Yes, now's the time to sew your dresses. - I have to give her the money.

- I need to talk to you. - Later, maybe?

No, now!

Sit down.

You're hiding from me.

You slipped into your room last night, said you were sick.

- What is going on? - My brother is dead!

So is my son!

- Did you know about that wedding? - No.

You're lying.

You two deserve each other. Always plotting behind my back.

- You knew and you were hiding it from me. - What do you want from me?

My brother is not with us, and it's your fault.

- How dare you? - You didn't give him your blessing.

You've always decided everything for us. But enough is enough.

It won't work on me. I'm going to accept Lieutenant Kozhin's proposal.

And you can disinherit me all you want.

Wait.

Come back! Come back this instant!

You promised you would leave town right away.

Unfinished business came up. Like collecting your debt.

- We had a deal, you'd get a transfer. - The deal has changed.

Now it's a different amount, and immediately. Today.

- The figure triples. - You're out of your mind.

No, I think you're out of yours.

You rope me into a crazy scheme with a murder,

now you want to wriggle out of it?

You did your job for the amount we discussed.

Yes, except now I'm going to be wanted for murder.

Pony up the cash or I'm giving you up to the police.

I didn't kill my brother. How could you even think of that?

No one even knows what happened.

- I do. I saw the man you hired. - Me? What man?

He's a known player in such business.

We meet back here, tonight. 8 o'clock.

Bring the money in small bills, in a traveling bag.

- I can't do it by then. - Fine, tomorrow at midday.

No later than that. After that, I'm gone.

Wait, what do you know about the murder?

- Good day. May I? - Excuse me...

We haven't been introduced. My name is Anna Mironova.

Stop.

Lieutenant Lvov? Yes, one of my aides-de-camp. Please.

But the chief of staff dealt with him more.

Please.

As for the duel between him and Lt Kozhin, it was reported to me, of course.

I was about to take measures but, thank God, the duel didn't happen.

What do you know about the reason for the duel?

Nothing. Believe me, I'm too busy to bother with the details

of two lieutenants' relationship.

I understand. But as far as I'm informed, Lt Lvov was transfered

from his previous station because of another duel.

Yes. Yes, but I don't know the details.

Did Lt Lvov's service have to do with the secret polygon?

No, it did not. How do you know about the polygon?

In St Petersburg, where I was reassigned from, I was investigating a case and...

Look, are you... are you authorized to access information about that polygon?

No.

Then please don't ask me any questions about it.

That's outside of the jurisdiction of the criminal police.

Sort out what's happening here.

Two officers are dead in two days! That is outrageous.

I wish you luck.

Now what?

- I'm sorry, Colonel. - What are you doing?

Who do you think you are?

Have any documents gone missing lately?

- What documents? - Any kind. Secret ones.

I don't get your meaning at all.

It's nothing to do with the police!

It's important for the investigation.

Listen, are you accusing officers of stealing documents?

That's impossible!

I won't keep you any longer. Good day.

And still, I advise you to have an inspection.

Good day.

- Mr Timokhin? What brings you here? - Business, Mr Shtolman.

- Supplies for the army? - That's right, sir.

- Anything for the country. - But not to your own cost.

Of course. Who trades without profit?

The late Lt Lvov wrote you a note from the hotel the day before his death.

- What were your dealings with him? - He asked for a loan.

- But I didn't give it to him. - Why not?

His father wouldn't approve.

And the sum he was asking for wasn't small.

- What for? Did he explain? - No. But it wasn't hard to figure out.

I think it was to afford his life together with his beloved.

- Have you seen him after that? - No.

I beg your pardon. Business calls.

And he still thinks he's dreaming, that it's a never-ending nightmare.

He's in pain and very scared. He really needs your help.

I've heard about your abilities, of course, but I...

...you didn't take it seriously.

To be honest, I didn't. Did you really see my brother?

I did. As plain as I see you.

He's the one who led me here.

- Could I see him? - Not see him, but you could talk to him.

Through me. I'll be the medium, the go-between for you.

And Kozhin, too.

- What do you gain from all this? - I just want to help.

- So you help everyone just like that? - As much as I'm able.

I'll be honest with you, Lidiya Kolchina has come to me for help.

I thought so, that opportunist. This is all her fault.

Did your brother want a duel with Kozhin because of her?

So this is what it is. You're just curious, aren't you?

That's why you made up that fairy tale about your abilities.

What are you talking about? I really want to help!

I know your brother was against your marriage to Kozhin.

- And you wanted to punish him. - What do you care?

I know you came to the hotel because you wanted to make up with your brother.

- What are you, the police? - What are you talking about?

I... I really want to help you.

You see, right now, you have to forgive him and confess. Right now.

Leave me alone, please! You...

- Sir, a dispatch from the garrison HQ. - Thank you.

"I hereby inform you that during our inspection,

some documents were found to be missing from the supply department.

Namely, contracts related to the purchase of food supplies and uniforms.

A detailed list of the documents is being compiled.

I hope this will help your investigation. Garrison Commander Colonel Simakov."

The carton is from Lvov's room.

So Lt Lvov stole the documents from garrison HQ.

Then he was killed and the documents were stolen.

- Why? - Why?

It didn't work. Yevgeniya Lvova didn't accept my help.

Why not?

Well, her private affairs don't concern me.

But that doesn't matter because I saw her talking to this gentleman.

They were sitting back to back in the tavern, and whispering.

What does he look like? Can you describe him?

I can even draw him.

Anton Andreievich, help Anna Viktorovna. Give her a pencil and a piece of paper.

Your talents are countless.

I just took drawing lessons for two years in the gymnasium.

Really? You won't believe this, but I took lessons, too.

Playing the harmonica. A German baker taught me.

- You don't say? - Yes, his name was Helmut.

We should definitely play as a duet.

That's a great idea. Piano and the harmonica, a new dawn for music.

Anton Andreievich, maybe you should become a musician.

Why should you waste away in this backwater police force?

I'm not the only one wasting away.

Really now?

That's not what I wanted to say.

I wanted to say something completely different.

Did you canvass the hotel servants about Lt Lvov's visitors?

- Yes, but... - What?

- Only about the female ones. - Why?

- Well, at that time, we didn't think... - Didn't think what?

I mean, didn't know... My fault.

Done. Except, you know, I think he had a moustache.

Bravo. Exquisite work.

And... what about the resemblance?

- You can be sure of it. - Great.

I'm going to the hotel, Anton Andreievich, and you look through our files.

Have you memorized his face?

No, I haven't seen this gentleman. A lady visited the dead man.

But this one... no... I don't know. Maybe we should ask Vaska the errand boy.

- He shines shoes here at night. - Let's ask him.

Yes, he's been here. I was shining some shoes here.

And he walked right by here.

And then he walked up to the door and stopped.

Because a different gentleman came out of Room 25.

- What gentleman? - Just a regular man.

He hid like this and watched him leave.

Then he walked up to the door to Room 25 and knocked.

But they didn't open, so he left, too.

What did the one who left the room look like?

I didn't see him. He had his back to me, and he went there, to the stairs.

- Did he have anything in his hands? - I don't think so.

A new gun turned up, an army revolver. Heard it at Mitrich's yesterday.

Who's selling it?

Kholodny.

Is this him?

No, not him.

Wait.

That's Blue Blood, isn't it? The marriage conman.

- Do you know where he lives? - Don't know where he's held up.

- Haven't seen him in a while. - And Kholodny?

Mitrich's hangout, every night.

- I guess he's not coming today. - You said he comes every night.

And today he didn't. What am I, his secretary?

And us, do we come here every day?

The night is young.

Let me go, Yakov Platonovich.

Maybe we really should come another day.

Quiet!

That's him!

That's definitely him, Kholodny.

Kholodny, it's me.

Blue Blood.

- I'll make a hole in you! - Drop the revolver!

Hold it!

Don't shoot, we're taking him alive! Let him escape.

- How do you mean? - Chase him around and let him get away.

And most importantly... most importantly, follow him.

Understood.

Was it him you saw at the hotel? Kholodny?

Tell me, did he kill the lieutenant?

I let my children go. I don't even know how it happened.

Don't blame yourself. You've done everything for them.

It's not your fault there was a tornado in your son's head, may he rest in peace.

If only it was just Sergei. I don't know what is happening to Zhenya.

You know what. She lost her brother. And then...

- That Kozhin shot himself. - It's something else.

It's as if she knows something about her brother's death, hiding it from me.

Don't worry about it.

Women, they'll start a drama out of nothing,

let alone something like this.

Don't, sir, don't. It's time to rest.

Come on, your bed is ready.

- This is my life now. - Well, have some rest.

Stay healthy.

Almost forgot. Here are last month's invoices, for you to sign.

- My condolences. - Thank you.

Such a sad story.

It's because youngsters don't think about the ramifications of their actions.

- What do you mean by that? - Your brother was a risk taker.

- And so are you. - I don't get your meaning.

Yes you do.

If you have something to say, say it.

Maybe I will, maybe I won't.

I haven't decided yet.

Who are you?

Lieutenant Kozhin.

Why? Why did you do it?

She backed down. Left me!

You weren't that impostir, were you?

She betrayed me, my Zhenya. Submitted to her father's will.

Tomorrow is my funeral. I don't know if she'll come.

Could you come, at least?

You're up?

What about the book, Uncle?

- You see, the thing is... - Where is the money?

- The circumstances... - Mom won't give you any more.

I'm getting a money transfer on Monday. And we'll sort it out right away.

Right away, I swear. This is just a temporary setback.

Uncle, if we lose this book, I will never forgive you.

Annette, Annette, this is a temporary, temporary, very temporary setback.

- I swear. Goodnight. - Good. Night.

- The words? Did you find out the words? - I did, I found out the words.

"Stubborn spirit, unruly spirit, listen to me, talk to me." That's it.

- Are you sure? - Absolutely. Absolutely.

When you come in contact with the ghost, say the phrase three times. Right?

And not only the ghost will hear you, everyone around will.

- Goodnight. - Goodnight.

- Annette... - Goodnight.

Thank you for coming.

- I'm sorry for being so rude. - It's fine. Accept my condolences.

- Can I have a minute? - Of course.

I'm begging you.

Help me, I really want to talk to them both, say goodbye.

They were gone so suddenly. I can't do it, I cannot...

...let them go. You can do it, can't you? You said...

Yes, yes, of course. Even right now.

- Right now? - Yes.

- Are they here? - They are.

Talk to them, they'll hear you.

Come on, they're waiting for you.

Stubborn spirit, unruly spirit, listen to me, talk to me.

Anna Viktorovna, I'm sorry for being late.

What's wrong with her?

- Don't bother her. - Is she mad with grief?

She's talking to her fiance and to her brother.

I mean, I advised her to let it all out, as if she were talking to them.

She needs to let her feelings out.

I see.

- When will she let it all out? - Don't bother her.

I'm not bothering her.

There's a lot she didn't tell them when they were alive.

I think there's too much she didn't tell them.

That must be heavy.

You know, I think you're taking it too hard.

It's not your story, is it?

It's not. But I thought about mine. About the story you and I have.

I want to tell you so much, but for some reason I can never do it.

Anna, what you saw in the cafe, it... it doesn't mean anything, it was her idea...

That doesn't matter. I meant something else.

I just thought, what if I...

What if I died tomorrow and never got to tell you...

What are you talking about! You... Don't even think about it!

Ms Lvova, my condolences.

I must accompany you to the precinct for questioning and investigative procedure.

- Right. Am I under arrest? - No, but it's an urgent matter.

Please, I have a carriage.

I think they heard me.

They talked to me, but without words.

If only we could talk like that before.

I'm glad. Very glad.

Now is the time to deal with all this and clear it all up.

Yes, yes. Quite.

I'm ready.

Yes. He's the one from the church.

- Who is it? - Goes by Blue Blood. A wedding conman.

My God...

Ma'am, please take a look.

Yes, it's the same ring. I have the other one.

Do you know a Kholodny?

Who?

- Who is he? - A bandit.

God be with you, no. I don't socialize with bandits.

- However, you do know Blue Blood. - Blue Blood?

The wedding conman, Blue Blood.

You hired him for the charade at the church.

- Yes, I did hire a man. - Did you want to get back at your brother?

Yes.

Lt Kozhin proposed to me, but my brother thought Kozhin was no man for me.

And he turned our father against the marriage.

Well? Are you satisfied?

Take this, it's yours.

But he forgave me.

They both forgave me.

Come inside.

Identification is underway. Walk up closer.

Do you know this man?

Yes.

I didn't want my brother's or my fiance's deaths.

My brother and I had a complicated relationship.

We loved each other.

But he decided that Kozhin wasn't for me.

He called him for a talk, insulted him, and...

- Hence the duel? - Yes, Kozhin challenged him.

I couldn't allow my brother to kill my fiance, or my fiance my brother.

So I forced them to end it in peace.

But my brother still wanted to disrupt our union.

He turned Father against the fiance.

- Father didn't give me his blessing. - Or a dowry.

So you decided to get back at your brother by ruining his secret wedding?

How did you find that man, alias Blue Blood.

I had heard about him from our housekeeper.

She arranged our meeting, too.

Now both lieutenants are dead, and Blue Blood too.

What, did he blackmail you?

Yes.

Did he kill my brother?

No.

You have to help us find the real killer.

Me? How?

Where are the documents that you took from your brother's hotel room?

Why would you need them?

My brother boasted that he would make Timokhin pay a hefty sum for them.

That's how he would finance his life with his fiancee.

When he fell asleep, I thought...

...that you could finance your life with Kozhin.

Yes. Now it sounds horrible,

but at the time it seemed like a good plan.

When Sergei fell asleep, I took the folders and left.

- Have you talked to Timokhin yet? - No.

Write to him.

- Did you bring it? - Of course not.

Do you think I'm stupid,

bringing the documents to a deserted place?

- Do you think I'm a total robber? - Who are you, then? A killer?

I didn't want your brother's death. But he was no angel either, you know.

He thought he would extort from me. Me.

- Where are the documents? - In a safe place.

- Let's agree on the price first. - We've agreed on it already.

The price doubles.

What is it with this family? Extortionists.

Where did it come from? Your father is a decent man.

I won't haggle with you.

The police have called me in for questioning already,

but I didn't give you up.

The price doubles or I change my mind.

Don't get agitated, Yevgeniya Antonovna. Here's what we shall do.

You will simply take me to where the documents are.

Quiet, sweetheart, quiet.

Forget about the money. Your reward will be your life, spared by me.

Timokhin! Don't move!

Drop the revolver!

Halt!

- Are you all right? - What were you waiting for?

Timokhin's confession.

- Is the knyaz home? - Away, as far as I know.

Please.

Hello, dear. How are you feeling?

We've been reading. Pushkin's fairy tales.

Do you like them?

I'll be in the hallway.

Hi.

Do you want me to read to you? Or do you want us to go for a walk?

Read.

Read? All right. One moment.

"Breezes o'er the ocean play, Speed a barque upon its way;"

Sails all spread, it skims the seas, Running swiftly 'fore the breeze.

You like it?

Wind, sea, waves. Sail break in sea. Fall in sea from sky.

- Alice, is this your poetry? - Never see.

You've never seen the sea?

Well, I've never seen it either.

Just in paintings, or in my dreams.

Wait. You had to have seen it.

You had to because you can only get here from England on a boat.

You don't want me to read to you anymore?

You want me to leave?

All right.

All right, but I'll certainly come back to you soon.

So what, you still haven't managed to summon Sergei's spirit?

He did come. I tried to talk to him several times, but he didn't answer.

- It's hard for him. - Is he suffering?

He keeps saying that he's in a nightmare and he can't wake up.

That's a consequence of dying in his sleep.

- Is he trapped in the nightmare forever? - No.

With time, the spirit will realize it's not a dream and he's in another world.

- And then what? - I don't know.

- Don't you know how it all works there? - No. They'll explain it better at church.

- About Heaven and Hell? - I know you are worried.

But we cannot influence anything that happens there, in the other world.

- All we can do is pray. - I will pray.

You should, it will help him.

I will pray for him to go to Hell.

Are you mad at him?

May he burn in Hell. Tell him I said this.

I don't have anything to say.

What is this, a confessional?

Then I'll tell it to you instead.

Lt Lvov served at the garrison HQ.

Somehow, maybe by acccident, he found out about your army supplies fraud.

You had a deal with the quartermaster and were selling wheat at a markup.

How exactly he realized that, it doesn't matter. We will never know.

He needed money to elope with Lidiya Kolchina.

So he stole the documents proving your manipulations to blackmail you.

Let's say he blackmailed me. But I refused to be cowed.

Little brat.

I only had to say the word to his father and he would bring him to his senses.

- This is the strange part. Why kill him? - I didn't, it never crossed my mind.

Of course you didn't kill him. Kholodny did!

That's quite enough. You ordered that blackmailer dead!

Nonsense! That snot-nosed kid was no threat to me!

We will still prove that you are the mastermind of that murder.

I did not kill him!

I know.

Freeze!

Freeze! Was it her?

Was she the one who paid you for killing the lieutenant?

Answer me or I'll shoot you right here, during an attempt to flee!

Answer me!

Yakov Platonovich, it seems like all is not like it seems.

As usual.

I saw Kolchina today. She was acting very strange.

- It felt like she... - Didn't love her fiance very much?

Yes.

I'll tell you more, she hated him. Take a seat.

We have a little bit of time until they take Ms Kolchina here.

It's very simple.

When I found out that Lt Lvov was fired for killing another soldier,

I sent a query to Rzhev where his regiment was stationed.

Today, an answer came for my query.

The name of the lieutenant he killed was Kolchin.

Two months ago, Lidiya Kolchina came here, to Zatonsk,

and made her brother's killer fall in love with her.

I really loved my brother. And some scoundrel just kills him.

Do you see? Just kills him like that!

The fight was over something trivial!

Lvov challenged my brother.

And killed him, just like that, out of boredom!

And what was his punishment for it?

He was fired from the regiment. Just fired!

And you took revenge.

Yes. He killed my brother, but no one considers it a murder. Do you see?

- It's a duel. - It's murder no matter what you call it.

- How did you find Kholodny? - I looked for him and I found him.

These days it's not very hard to find a killer for hire if you have money.

Why did you need that farce with the wedding?

What do you call it? Alibi?

She waited for him at the church, and he died at the hotel.

A great alibi.

Brilliant. It would never even occur to me.

It would have worked perfectly well had Yevgeniya Lvova not ruined the wedding.

I can only imagine how shocked you were, acting out the wait for your groom

and suddenly seeing him walk into the church.

Yes. It was horrible.

At first I thought he had somehow tricked the killer and now he knows.

- And then you saw that it wasn't him. - Yes, it was quite unexpected!

Like some kind of vaudeville.

Does Lvov know that I was the one who...?

- Yes. Now he does. - Tell him, no forgiveness. I curse him.

How is that girl that the knyaz has taken in?

Alas, no change yet.

- Has she come to her senses? - No, unfortunately.

Is it contagious?

Mariya Timofeevna, come now.

Madness isn't a virus, it is not transfered from person to person.

I've been quite worried about Anna lately. She has been there a lot.

What joy does she get from talking to a crazy person?

Look at your daughter. Anna Viktorovna has a very kind heart.

That avenger, Kolchina...

is it true she came to Zatonsk specifically to kill Lvov?

- Yes, it's true. - What wiliness.

First making him fall in love with her, then sending a hired killer.

And that secret wedding... What a monstrous plan.

Lvova is another one, to ruin her brother's wedding... No less monstrous.

In fact, in my opinion, only women are capable of such a thing.

Only women.

- Desperate women. - What?

- Desperate women. - Desperate women. Quite.

Desperate women.

There's something... One of my books is pawned.

It was necessary. Absolutely necessary.

About 30 rubles.

- I mean, could borrow 30 rubles from you? - Well...

Say...

Are they not the same 30 rubles Anna has asked Masha to give her?

They are.

But as soon as I get a transfer, I will pay you back. 60.

Well, of course. Of course.

Yes.

Amazing! Joy from start to finish!

Anton Andreievich, you continue to surprise me.

It's all Anna Viktorovna.

What a wonderful duet. Anna, I demand, I demand that you and Anton...

Anton Andreievich.

...Anton Andreievich learn a few more pieces.

Surely it's better than those endless seances.

And now for the dessert, gentlemen!

Please come to the dining room.

- Annete. - Yes.

- You played wonderfully. - Really? You were listening?

- I thought you were talking to my uncle. - Your uncle was the one talking.

He was anxious to say his piece about female cruelty, Mrs Kolchina specifically.

Yes, what a terrible story. I still can't collect my wits.

Quite, it wasn't pleasant.

It was all your men's playing with death.

She was basically right. A duel is murder too.

I cannot agree with you.

You cannot agree with me on anything.

A duel and a murder are completely different things.

Even the most obvious things.

I wonder... Is it only with me or with women in general?

I've never thought about it.

And you shouldn't. That's very complicated.

For you, what is everything like? Very simple.

You stand opposite each other, boom, and that's it. That's it, all is solved.

So that's what you think about me.

You wanted to tell me something at the cemetery yesterday.

That was on the spur of the moment. Let's go, the coffee is getting cold.

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